Ukraine presidential vote begins under bribe claim cloud, comedian with no political experience as the front-runner
Opinion polls have shown Volodymyr Zelenskiy who stars in a TV sitcom about a teacher who becomes president after a video of him denouncing corruption goes viral, leading a field of 39 candidates. The polls also had Zelenskiy outpacing incumbent President Petro Poroshenko and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the other top candidates, by a broad margin.
Concern about the election's legitimacy spiked in recent days after the interior minister said his department was "showered" with hundreds of claims that supporters of Poroshenko and Tymoshenko offered money in exchange for votes. His lack of political experience helped his popularity with voters amid broad disillusionment with the current generation of politicians.
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